Adding a paragraph about Linked Data in the introduction
authorYves Raimond <yves.raimond@bbc.co.uk>
Wed, 26 Jun 2013 15:29:25 +0100
changeset 863 15a693f58111
parent 862 f46f2a58ee82
child 864 8719cbf3f394
Adding a paragraph about Linked Data in the introduction
rdf-primer/index.html
--- a/rdf-primer/index.html	Thu Jun 20 22:36:33 2013 -0500
+++ b/rdf-primer/index.html	Wed Jun 26 15:29:25 2013 +0100
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@
 
     <p>The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a framework for
     describing information about <strong>resources</strong> in the World Wide Web,
-    such as such author and modification time of a
+    such as author and modification time of a
     Web page or copyright and licensing information of a Web video.</p>
 
     <p class="note">A Web resource is anything we can point to with a
@@ -141,7 +141,12 @@
     Bob's home page is <code>http://www.example.com/bob</code> a
     popular convention is to use the IRI
     <code>http://www.example.com/bob#me</code> as a Web identifier for
-    Bob. If you insert this IRI in your browser it may or may not
+    Bob himself. </p>
+
+    <p class="issue">Should we get into httpRange-14 here? If not,
+    remove the following paragraph below</p>
+
+    <p>If you insert this IRI in your browser it may or may not
     retrieve something, but it definitely will not retrieve Bob in
     person (well, at least not with the current state of the art). </p>
 
@@ -156,6 +161,16 @@
     available to applications other than those for which it was
     originally created. </p>
 
+    <p>In particular RDF can be used to publish and interlink data on the Web.
+    For example retrieving <code>http://www.example.com/bob</code>
+    could provide data about Bob, including the fact that he
+    knows Alice, as identified by her IRI.
+    Retrieving Alice's IRI could then provide more data about her, including links
+    to other datasets for her friends, interests, etc. A person or
+    an automated process can then follow such links and aggregate data about those
+    various things. Such uses of RDF are often
+    qualified as <a href="http://linkeddata.org">Linked Data</a>. </p>
+
     <p>The primer is not a normative document. Normative documentation
     of RDF can be found in the following documents: </p>
     <ul>
@@ -381,6 +396,14 @@
 }
     </pre>
 
+    <h3>RDF/XML</h3>
+
+    <p>...</p>
+
+    <pre>
+
+    </pre>
+
 </section>
 
 <section id="section-vocabulary">